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The Greek Wall

by Nicolas Verdan ...

Translated by Donald Wilson ...

• Nicolas Verdan, a young prize-winning Swiss novelist never before available in English, knows Greece from the inside having lived there and from the family of his Greek mother.•Debut crime novel based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration by land flooding Greece from the Middle East via Turkey. Many dark stories surfaced around the construction ... Read more

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• Nicolas Verdan, a young prize-winning Swiss novelist never before available in English, knows Greece from the inside having lived there and from the family of his Greek mother.•Debut crime novel based on the true story of a ten mile wall built in 2012 to put an end to illegal immigration by land flooding Greece from the Middle East via Turkey. Many dark stories surfaced around the construction
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The Harbour Master

by Daniel Pembrey ...

Series Book 1 - A Detective van der Pol Investigation
For fans of John Harvey's Charlie Resnick series and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, The Harbour Master is a fast-paced detective investigation set in the evocative locale of Amsterdam.'A debut novelist of rare skill' Barry Forshaw, The Financial Times'The Henning Mankell of Amsterdam' Bill RodgersHenk van der Pol ... ... Read more

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For fans of John Harvey's Charlie Resnick series and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, The Harbour Master is a fast-paced detective investigation set in the evocative locale of Amsterdam.'A debut novelist of rare skill' Barry Forshaw, The Financial Times'The Henning Mankell of Amsterdam' Bill RodgersHenk van der Pol ...
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Winds of the Steppe

Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China

by Bernard Ollivier ...

Translated by Dan Golembeski ...

Bernard Ollivier pushes onward in his attempt to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Great Silk Road. “A gripping account. More than just a travel story—this is a quest for the Other.”—Alexis Liebaert, L’Événement**Picking up where Walking to Samarkand left off, Winds of the Steppe continues the astonishing tale of journalist Bernard Ollivier’s 7,200-mile walk from Turkey to ... Read more

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Bernard Ollivier pushes onward in his attempt to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Great Silk Road. “A gripping account. More than just a travel story—this is a quest for the Other.”—Alexis Liebaert, L’Événement**Picking up where Walking to Samarkand left off, Winds of the Steppe continues the astonishing tale of journalist Bernard Ollivier’s 7,200-mile walk from Turkey to
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The Master

by Claire North ...

Series Book 3 - Gameshouse
The third and final installment in the mesmerizing trilogy of a mystical gambling house where deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.The Gameshouse is an unusual institution.Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon . . . every game under the sun.But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that ... Read more

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The third and final installment in the mesmerizing trilogy of a mystical gambling house where deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.The Gameshouse is an unusual institution.Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon . . . every game under the sun.But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that
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Border

A Journey to the Edge of Europe

by Kapka Kassabova ...

“Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free.” —Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the ... Read more

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“Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free.” —Peter PomerantsevIn this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the
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Hav

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“Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times).“A touching lover letter . . . to life itself”—featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Independent)Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site ... Read more

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“Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times).“A touching lover letter . . . to life itself”—featuring Last Letters from Hav, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Independent)Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site
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Skiathos - Blue Guide Chapter

by Nigel McGilchrist ...

Series series from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece."Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times. ... Read more

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Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece."Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
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Tokyo Cancelled

by Rana Dasgupta ...

Thirteen strangers stranded in an Asian airport spin tales that "outdo Arabian Nights for inventiveness" in this debut novel ( The Guardian).Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they huddle by the baggage carousels and tell each other stories. So begins Tokyo Cancelled, a unique literary ... Read more

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Thirteen strangers stranded in an Asian airport spin tales that "outdo Arabian Nights for inventiveness" in this debut novel ( The Guardian).Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they huddle by the baggage carousels and tell each other stories. So begins Tokyo Cancelled, a unique literary
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Blue Thirst

Tales of Life Abroad

by Lawrence Durrell ...

A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the ... Read more

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A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the
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The Golden Step

A Walk Through the Heart of Crete

by Christopher Somerville ...

Series series Armchair Traveller
For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the ... Read more

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For Somerville this was a kind of pilgrimage, a journey unlike any he had undertaken in 20 years of travel-writing. It was an expedition where he traded the usual comforts and certainties for a real physical and mental challenge, with no mobile phone or other technological aids. The only plan for his journey was to begin in the East at Easter and finish at Whitsun in the extreme West, at the
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Songs My Mother Never Taught Me

by Selcuk Altun ...

Translated by Ruth Christie, Selcuk Berilgen ...

After the death of his overbearing mother, the privileged Arda reclines in his wealth, reflecting on his young life, and on the life of his father, the famous mathematician Mürsel Ergenekon, who was murdered on Arda's fourteenth birthday. While on the other side of the city 'your humble servant' Bedirhan has decided to pack in his ten-year career as an assassin. Their two lives become ... Read more

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After the death of his overbearing mother, the privileged Arda reclines in his wealth, reflecting on his young life, and on the life of his father, the famous mathematician Mürsel Ergenekon, who was murdered on Arda's fourteenth birthday. While on the other side of the city 'your humble servant' Bedirhan has decided to pack in his ten-year career as an assassin. Their two lives become
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Paradise Denied

How I survived the Journey from Eritrea to Europe

by Zekarias Kebraeb, Marianne Moesle ...

Zekarias Kebraeb was just seventeen when he fled his home in Eritrea in 2002 to escape his impending forced military service. To stay would have meant abuse, torture, and possibly even his death. Zekarias had no idea that his journey would span four years, and no concept of how brutal some of the choices along the way would be. He was marched through the wilderness, spent two weeks crossing the ... Read more

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Zekarias Kebraeb was just seventeen when he fled his home in Eritrea in 2002 to escape his impending forced military service. To stay would have meant abuse, torture, and possibly even his death. Zekarias had no idea that his journey would span four years, and no concept of how brutal some of the choices along the way would be. He was marched through the wilderness, spent two weeks crossing the
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